Trogoderma variabile
| Trogoderma variabile | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Family: | Dermestidae |
| Tribe: | Megatomini |
| Genus: | Trogoderma |
| Species: | T. variabile
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| Binomial name | |
| Trogoderma variabile Ballion, 1878
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Trogoderma variabile, the warehouse beetle, is a species of carpet beetle in the family Dermestidae. It is found in Europe and Northern Asia (excluding China), Central America, North America, Oceania, and Southern Asia.[1][2][3]
Description
Adult warehouse beetles average about 3.2 mm (0.13 in) in length and are some shade of reddish-brown, dark brown or blackish-brown. The larvae are cream coloured or some darker shade of brown, and average 6 mm (0.24 in) in length when fully grown; they have long bristles at the tip of the abdomen.[4]
References
- ^ "Trogoderma variabile Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Trogoderma variabile". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Trogoderma variabile species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ Robinson, William H. (2005). Handbook of urban insects and arachnids: A handbook of urban entomology (PDF). Cambridge University Press. pp. 104–105. ISBN 9780521812535.
Further reading
- Háva, Jirí (2003). "World catalogue of the Dermestidae". Studies and Reports of District Museum Prague-East Supplement. 1: 1–196.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.
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